• Kratos Defense & Security Solutions received a $33.6 million contract to provide the power conversion system for NASA’s SR-1 Freedom spacecraft.
• The work will be performed as a subcontractor to Sierra Lobo under NASA’s SpaceDOC III contract.
• The system will convert reactor heat into electricity for propulsion and spacecraft operations.
• SR-1 Freedom targets launch in 2028 to demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion on a mission to Mars carrying the SkyFall payload.

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